Mega Events
Sports Mega-Events, Social scientific analyses of a global phenomenon
Edited by John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter, 2006, Blackwell, ISBN 10: 1 4051 5290 7
A recent collection of ten academic papers, plus an introduction, which gives useful updates about the ideologies which inform the Olympic Industry, the impacts of a range of recent sports mega-events, and current theoretical debates within academic research.
Submitted by gmadmin on Wed, 31/01/2007 - 17:27.
So who profits from Olympic developments?
Essay | Finance | Mega Events
Property speculation
Labour MP Clive Betts has highlighted the need for transparency in public private sector deals for delivery of the Olympic developments and has called for parliamentary scrutiny of such arrangements. Deals were being discussed with Stratford City Developments ahead of consent for the Olympic bill to ensure conversion of flats into housing for 4,500 athletes (R. Booth, The Guardian, July 29, 2005). In 2003, the consortium Stratford City Developments and the LDA agreed not to frustrate the other's planning applications. The Guardian article notes: "A director of the consortium, Sir Stuart Lipton, was also a senior government advisor on the Olympics plans at the time of the co operation agreement. He was later forced to resign from his post as chairman of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment following accusations of conflict of interest between his role as government adviser and a leading private developer".
Submitted by Carolyn Smith on Sat, 11/11/2006 - 16:17.
Olympic Dreams: The Impact of Mega-Events on Local Politics
Book Review | Mega Events | Olympics Studies
Matthew J. Burbank, Gregory Andranovich, Charles H. Heying,
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001, ISBN: 978-1-55587-991-4, pb
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Thu, 21/02/2008 - 11:11.
India's cynical plans for Delhi to become 'a world class city' for the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Article | Displacement | Human Rights | Mega Events | Sustainability
Although the Commonwealth Games are just under three years away, India's capital is being reshaped as the city prepares for the biggest sporting event in its history. The Delhi government has begun putting up posters saying the capital will be transformed into a "world-class city" by the 2010 deadline.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Tue, 08/01/2008 - 13:39.
The game of winning the Games
Article | Human Rights | Mega Events | Politics | Protest
The current obsession with winning the right to host sporting events has resulted in the 2014 Commonwealth Games being awarded to Glasgow. The news was greeted by the media with unalloyed joy. Politicians from all sides hugged one another, athletes proclaimed this as yet another opportunity for aspiring sporting types to win medals, the site of the proposed athletes’ village was declared to be an industrial wasteland and the project was described by one politician (does it matter which?) as ‘irresistible’. The watching media failed to debate the issues or provide any detailed information
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Tue, 20/11/2007 - 00:32.
Delhi’s Date with the Common Wealth Games 2010
Common Wealth or Kiss of Death? by Amita Baviskar
I am sitting across the desk from Shiela Dikshit in a room that is alive with irony. We are talking about the Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi in 2010. The Chief Minister’s office is located in what used to be the Players’ Building, a hostel meant for Asiad’82. Asiad’82 came and went, but the Players’ Building wasn’t ready on time. For fifteen years, it remained a concrete shell looming over the west bank of the Yamuna off Vikas Marg till the Dikshit government came to its rescue. So does the ghost of games past haunt the Chief Minister? Does the spectre of prestigious projects overrunning their deadline give Ms Dikshit sleepless nights?
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Thu, 08/11/2007 - 12:40.
Mega-projects research centre
Article | Mega Events | Planning & Development | Politics
A new research centre is aiming to develop better ways of keeping large-scale projects on track.
The traditional tools and techniques of project management are no longer sufficient for the complex task of major programme management, according to BT which is setting up the centre with the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Tue, 06/11/2007 - 13:38.
Tennis 'Masters Cup' moving to London
Article | 2012 Sport | Attractions | Mega Events
The men's international tennis circuit will end with a prestigious final in London from 2009 under a four-year contract announced on Wednesday. The Masters Cup, staged in Shanghai for the last two years, is being renamed the ATP World Tour Final and is being switched to London's O2 Arena, formerly known as the Millennium Dome.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Wed, 04/07/2007 - 09:39.
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